The South Asian Religions Colloquium (SARC) seeks to share ongoing, current scholarly research on topics in South Asian religions with Harvard students and faculty as well as the wider Boston academic community.

This event will feature speaker John Cort, Professor of Asian and Comparative Religions, and Judy Gentili, Chair in International Studies, Denison University.  Prof. Cort will present a lecture entitled, “'No One Gives Like the Guru’: Images of the True Guru in Jainism. Explorations of a Religious and Literary Theme in South Asian History.”

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Comparative Politics Seminar

As we live in an administered world, to look at the role of Public Administration in space and time can reveal unique aspects of structure and dynamics. In this seminar, Wolfgang Drechsler will discuss the development of PA – both in practice and theory – in the former ‘Second World’, which has been a quite cohesive research area, during the last 30 years. We will go from the old Soviet bureaucracy, via the market-based reforms of the 1990s and the effects of...

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Olena Nikolayenko, Associate Professor of Political Science, Fordham University; Center Associate, Davis Center

Sponsored by the Davis Center for...

The 2017–2018 Fellows Seminar is coordinated by Professors Stephanie Sandler and Terry Martin.

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Cuba Studies Program:

Speaker: Leo Brouwer, Cuban Composer

Join Maestro Leo Brouwer as he surveys the “Latin Tinge,” Cuban classical and commercial music from 1900 – 2000. The lecture will highlight the impressive body of work that Brouwer produced from 1960-2000.

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All members of GSAS are welcome. Lunch will be provided. 

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Three-time Grammy Award-winning pianist, composer, educator, and founder and Artistic Director of the Afro Latin Jazz Alliance, Arturo O’Farrill will be visiting the Harvard campus in late February. A musician of deep social conscience, all of Arturo’s music is written with someone, something, or some community, in mind. A ferocious collaborator of musicians of many styles, as well as the dance idiom, Arturo’s latest project is entitled “Little Tiny Walls” and will feature musicians from Mexican folkloric styles, Afro-Latin jazz, and the classical idiom, collaborating and playing...

Reading and Discussion with Kate Luongo and Matt Carotenuto, authors of Obama and Kenya: Contested Histories and Politics of Belonging

ORGANIZER: Hutchins Center
WEBSITE:  http://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/events-lectures/events/february-21...

Reischauer Institute Japan Forum Presentation

Brian Ruppert, Kazushige Hirasawa Professor of Japanese Studies, Bates College

Moderator: Ryuichi Abe, Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions, Harvard University

Details: Thinking with Scriptures and Their Uses: Great Notes (Maka shō), Raishin’s Notes (Raishin shō), and the Dissemination of Ritual Scripture (Shōgyō) in Early Medieval Japan
 

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Carolyn Wong , Research Associate at the Institute for Asian American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston and Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine at Tufts University

Corky Lee, American photographer

Details: Two Formative Moments: Emergence of New Asian American and Southeast Asian American Activists in the late 1960s and in...

Tang Xiaobing, Associate Professor, History Department, East China Normal University; Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute

Chair/discussant: Elizabeth Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute

Details: The Road to the Chinese Communist Revolution: How Petty Intellectuals...

Dr. Chavez examines public discourse surrounding children of immigrants, DACA and so-called "anchor babies," exploring how media coverage justifies exclusionary public policies and attempts to redefine the meaning of citizenship. Efforts to repeal or change the 14th Amendment would remove...

Layli Long Soldier holds a BFA in creative writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA from Bard College. Her poems have appeared in the American Indian Journal of Culture and Research, American Poets, BOMB, the Brooklyn Rail, Eleven Eleven, KR Online, Mud City, the New York Times, PEN America, and Poetry, among others. She is a recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a National Artist Fellowship from the Native Arts &...

Fellows' Presentation

Part of the 2017–2018 Fellows' Presentation Series

Lecture by Paul J. Kosmin...